This qualitative study seeks to gain knowledge about the motives and barriers of rural adult women students and how these factors impact their decision to pursue postsecondary education. As more adult women choose to ent ...

This study was an ethnographic case study of a
Vietnamese unaccompanied minor in a post secondary setting.
There were two guiding questions for the study: (1) How
does the subject perceive language as it relates to
e ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the learning that occurs in Latina students
who enroll in learning communities designed for underprepared community college
students. The research question guiding this study is: ...

The purposes of this phenomenological inquiry was to examine the challenges faced by administrative leaders of Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) at California community colleges (CCC) from the perspectives of ...

This case study of leadership in crisis at Meadow View
Community College (fictitious name) was undertaken to add to
the practical and theoretical knowledge and understanding of
presidential leadership issues that actu ...

The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe how library deans and directors at large comprehensive community colleges strategically advocate for and support instructional and technological innovation despite the ...

This is a phenomenological research study of the lived experience of
women student mentors at one community college located in an urban setting on
the West Coast. The study participants were women students who served a ...

This study's purpose was to provide data on major
inhibitory factors experienced by a third of Oregon high
school English teachers in areas of: attitudes, behaviors,
and physical and emotional effects of theme assessm ...

Recent trends in higher education have led to the development of
alternatives to traditional on-campus graduate degree programs. There is a
concomitant need to understand student experience in field-based programs
whi ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a manager's planning guide to aid
in the development and improvement of international training projects through
the use of the Total Project Acculturation (TPA) concept. The use ...

The era of "customer satisfaction" brings students to colleges who are increasingly
identifying themselves as customers. Competition among a growing number of institutions and
learning organizations is sharpening the d ...

The purpose of this study was to understand, through nontraditional student perspectives,
how institutional practices of postsecondary proprietary schools may influence the
success of moderately to highly nontraditiona ...

Mentor teachers are currently seen as a solution to
education's dilemma of how to orient beginners into the
profession and provide educational advancement for its most
capable, experienced teachers. One goal of Oregon ...

Literature on the evolution of the American higher education system includes a historical and consistent debate over the definition of the higher education mission in the country. Recent debate focuses on mission differe ...

This qualitative study examined organizational change including the
necessary steps that a large school district took in planning and implementing a
reform effort. This project told a story of one school district's exp ...

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a model in which
video materials are effectively used to develop students' listening
communication ability. In order to reach this goal, the researcher
designed the st ...

This research was undertaken to identify variables
that accounted for major changes in academic performance
between high school and college. Differences between
predicted and actual college GPA were used to classify
...

The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of faculty-to-faculty mentoring programs on the experiences of both mentors and first-year instructor protégés in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs with ...

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics published their vision of
active, problem-centered instruction with a goal of conceptual understanding in
1989. Fifteen years after these reforms were proposed the change ...

In the past decade, issues related to cultural diversity and pluralism
have risen to the forefront in education. The increasing cultural diversity in
American classrooms and communities requires preservice teachers to ...